Thieves ram car to escape
A WITNESS has told how thieves, he believed were no older than 16, twice rammed a car with a child and woman inside to evade a man who was trying to stop them.
Andrew Ross was sitting directly behind the Kia that was rammed by a white Volkswagen Amarok at the intersection of Gulliver St and Ross River Rd, Mundingburra, shortly after noon on Saturday.
“I noticed there was a car beside me, they were in a dual cab with a canopy at the back. They did look a bit suspicious to me, there was about five young kids in the car,” he said.
Mr Ross said the people inside the Amarok noticed him looking at them and put on bandannas to disguise their faces. He said the driver had long blonde hair.
“Then another car pulled out behind them and a bloke raced out and tried to reach inside the dual cab,” he said.
“I’m assuming it may have been the owner … when (the Amarok) took off, he yelled at me the car’s stolen.”
Mr Ross said the Amarok rammed the Kia once before reversing and ramming it again in order to slip through the traffic.
He said he called police after checking to see if the woman and child were injured.
A nurse also checked them before paramedics arrived.
Mr Ross said he had never seen anything like it before.
“It just shows you how bad the crime is in Townsville,” he said.
A Queensland Ambulance Service spokeswoman confirmed two patients were assessed by paramedics but did not need to be taken to hospital. She said they were out of the vehicle and walking.
A Queensland Police Service spokesman said there had been no arrests and the suspects were still at large as of yesterday. He said weather may have part in the crash.
The Amarok was earlier seen driving recklessly around Heatley and Kirwan.
The stolen vehicle reportedly knocked over the street sign at the corner of Bamford Lane and Mcbride St, Kirwan, and lost its door.
Jade Hewson witnessed two cars she believed were stolen driving the wrong way down Bamford Lane shortly before the crash.
“We saw the white car along with blue Ford Falcon ute,” she said. “They went against the traffic. They just went flying.”
The Amarok was found dumped in Burrell Lane, Heatley. that wet played a
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